March 19, 2008
Start Early & Stick With a Plan - Developing Marketable Engineering Skills
by Heinz P. Bloch, PE
For the foreseeable future, the “job of the future” will exist in a world that wrestles with issues of outsourcing, offshore design and manufacturing, and generally uncertain employment prospects. Among the job seekers, aspiring engineers need to develop effective ways of finding and keeping employment in this murky environment.
Guidance is helpful as you ponder the question of where you should be headed in this sea of instability. Today we live at a time when professed experts expound diametrically opposite views and often have the audacity of serving up their views with an air of infallibility. The answer as to where you should head is multi-faceted, but being balanced and learning a marketable skill instead of going after an ill-defined “education” is certainly a good start.
March 19, 2008
Plant Engineering and Maintenance Solutions Under One Roof
Mark your calendar for the next PEM Show!
May 6-8, 2008
Knoxville, TN
Managing a plant or facility is serious business in today’s intense environment and you have no time to waste.
That is why we have put together 3 days of value packed solutions that support better plant operations and maintenance so you can meet mission critical goals and keep things running smooth as silk.
Collocated with the University of Tennessee’s MARCON-2008, the new and improved Plant Engineering and Maintenance Show will be time well spent and best of all - it’s absolutely FREE!
March 19, 2008
Master’s Degree in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is offering a new online master’s degree in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering.
Contact UT at (865) 974-2525 or
Find out more about Master’s Degree in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering
March 19, 2008
What is Corrective Maintenance (CM)?
I have been all over the world in the past 24 months to visit many different maintenance and reliability professionals. Many of them are kind enough to show me some details about the maintenance and reliability programs they are involved in.
We usually talk about planned and unplanned work and the topic of corrective maintenance usually arises.
When I ask for the definition of corrective maintenance - I get as many different answers as people I speak with.
Can someone please tell me if there is a proper definition of corrective maintenance and what it is?
Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP
March 19, 2008
Playback: Eleven Basic Rules to Follow to Attain Reliability and Maintenance Excellence
Please view the recorded workshop from Jack R. Nicholas Jr., CMRP for the 2nd of a 10 part series - Advancing Reliability & Maintenance.
There are an overwhelming variety of options for success offered to those responsible for Reliability and Maintenance today. Practitioners are constantly bombarded with presentations touting the benefits of methodologies such as asset management, condition monitoring, lean manufacturing, reliability centered maintenance, six sigma, supply chain management, total productive maintenance and many more.
Regardless of what individual methodology or combination or approaches are adopted to achieve reliability and maintenance excellence, some basic rules must be kept constantly in mind and never ignored. These rules should form the basis and underlying rationale for decision made every day by managers and support personnel with or without reliability maintenance excellence.
Those who experience this workshop can use the 11 rules as a starting point to develop the right system regardless of what level of reliability and maintenance excellence has been earned to date.
March 19, 2008
The Mikron Black Book is Back!
The highly requested Mikron Infrared Temperature Guide presents selection and application information on thousands of infrared temperature measuring instruments and hundreds different applications for process control, preventive maintenance, quality control and laboratory research applications. Included in this guide is a section on Thermal Imaging and Blackbody Sources. The Appendix section on theory and construction of infrared thermometers and blackbody sources are invaluable resources.
March 19, 2008
Cause Mapping: The Sinking of the Titanic
presented by Mark Galley, ThinkReliability
This 20 minute iPresentation Tutorial uses the Cause Mapping methodology to review the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic Cause Map created in this presentation demonstrates how to 1) clearly define an issue, 2) conduct a thorough cause-and-effect analysis and 3) find the best solutions. Cause Mapping is a systems thinking approach to root cause analysis that improves the way individuals analyze, document, communicate and solve problems.
